Pay-envelop



R. E. FISHER AND W. M. YORK.

PAY ENVELOP.

APPLICATIOWFILED DEC. le, 191e.

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R. E. FISHER AND W. M. YORK.

PAY ENVELOP.

APPUcATloN FILED 050.16. 1916.

Patented July 13, 1920.

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FLDRET MILLE THILEIF? MLM* DELL/495 .LLEQUER JEWELRY Emmwmmg ERDEEBDQUUHN CIERRE DRUGS HARDWARE UNITED 'STATES Param osi-ice HUBERT E.FISI-IER 'AND WILLIAIM Ii/. YORK, OF LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA; SAIDFISI-IER ASSGNOR TO SAD YORK.y

PAY-ENVELOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1920.

Application filed December' 16, 1916. Serial No. 137.459.

To all 107mm, t may cm1/*ern Be it known that we, .Bonner E. Frei-Innand lViLLrAiu M, Youn, both citizens of the United States, residing atLong Beach, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, haveinvented a new and useful Pay-Envelop, of which the following is aspecification.

Qur invention relates to the art of advertising, and the principalobject of the invention is to provide means for building up good-willwithin a certain group of persons. This means may be embodied in acontaine in which merchandise, or other material things are placed.l/Vhile the invention is generally applicable to any sort of acontainer, its operation can be best understood if a specic form ofcontainer is considered, and for this reason we have selected as anillustration a pay envelop shown in Figure 1. lV e have also shown a paycheck in llig. 2.

It is common practice for employers to place the employees wages insealed envelops, these envelops containing the exact Yages due, so thata large number of employees can be quickly paid without the necessityfor making change.

Such a pay envelop is shown, for illustive purposes only, in theaccompanying drawing. It consists of a paper or cloth envelop 11provided with a sealing flap 12. Marked on the top of the envelop is theemployees name 13, his Shop number 14, and the amount of his wages 15.rlhe name 1G of the employer and his address 17 may also be markedthereon. In all of the above particulars the envelop resembles anordinary pay envelop, and no claim of novelty is iliade therefor.

Our invention resides in a series of coupons 18 which are formed in thebody of the envelop and are preferably divided by perforations 19, sothat each can be readily detached. Each of these coupons contains ,thename, or other designa-tion, of a merchant, professional man, amusementowner, or other person or organization which desires the employeespatronage,` and also contains the name of the pe-rson using the payenvelop. Each of these coupons is good for a fixed sum, say live cents,on every purchase of over a certain amount, say one dollar, which theemployee may make.

The method of operation of the invention is as follows:

ylhe employer or any other person who distributes containers, all suchpersons being included under1 the term distributers, makes a contractwith the merchants or other persons who are to redeem the coupons, allsuch persons being included in the term redeemers, or such contracts aremade through an independent organization known as the contractors whoreceive a percentage of the business handled, or are otherwisereimbursed by either the distributer or the redeemers. The distributerdelivers the(l containers to a group of persons who may be called thereceivers These receivers may be employees, in the case of the payenvelop, or they may be purchasers of goods or others.

rl`he distributer benefits by the scheme due to each coupon being markedwith his name so that the redeemer knows where the money he receivescomes from. This creates goodwill flowing from the redeemer to thedistributer, and this good-will is a real asset to the distributer. Thereceiver benefits in thateach of the coupons represents a bonus which hecan avail. himself of or not, as he sees lit. The redeemer benefits inthat he induces the receivers to trade with him, and especially where alarge concern does business in a small town the advantages of thisinducement are large. The contractor may also boneiit largely in thathis only expense is the printing and distribution of envelops and theincidental expenses of making and collection under the contractors.

It is also possible to make the scheme a mutual one, some of theredeemers being in turn distributers so that the business of thereceivers is kept within a small circle. For example, a bank may agreeto make up the payrolls of a large number of concerns, using envelops onwhich each concern appears in turn as distributer, and all the others asredeemers.-

lVhile our invention is especialy adapted to containers, and even moreespecially to pay envelops, the same general scheine may be utilized inconnection with a check as shown in Fig. 2. Here the check is made outto a receiver 51 by a distributer 52, and has att-ached thereto coupons53, each of which contains the distributers naine and banks Who canfurnish checks to a certain group of depositors in which the check ofeach depositor carries the Acoupons of all the Yrest of the group, thusconserving the funds of the group largely Within the group.

All such mo'diioations, and all improvements and Variations thereof, areWithin the scope and spirit of our invention, which is limited solely bythe annexed claim.

IVe claim as our invention :f

A pay envelop adapted to contain an em- 20 ployees Wages; and aplurality of coupons formed inthe body of the envelop, each couponhaving plainly marked thereon a symbol identifying? a merchant WhoY hasagreed to accept same as part payment in 25 trade, and each couponbearing a Vsymbol serving to identify the employee originally issuingthe envelop; said envelop also bear- -ing symbols indicating that saidcoupons will be accepted by said merchants.

Intestimony whereof7 We have hereunto Set our hands at Los Angeles,California, this 8th day of December, 1916.

ROBERT E. FISI-IER. WILLIAM M. YORK.

